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ReviewDance
Grief, bliss and terror in the Royal Ballet’s Kenneth MacMillan retrospective — review
...When the choreographer John Cranko died at the age of only 45, his colleague, rival and friend Kenneth MacMillan immortalised him with Requiem, one of his loveliest, most poignant works, which supplies the...
March 21, 2024
ReviewDance
Wayne McGregor’s new Royal Ballet work is energised by a terrific cast
...Does Wayne McGregor have a secret twin?...
June 13, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewDance
The Dante Project — Sarah Lamb lights up Wayne McGregor’s Inferno
...Wayne McGregor, always keen on creative alliances, approached Thomas Adès in 2014 asking for ideas for a full evening work....
October 18, 2021
Person in the NewsRobin Wigglesworth
Ken Griffin, financial prodigy turned industry giant
...It is unclear what happened with Satish Vadapalli and Wayne Wong, who worked out the challenges with pen and paper before passing on solutions for their third member to bash into a computer....
January 14, 2022
ReviewDance
Royal Ballet makes triumphant return with Back on Stage
...Edward Watson, who recently announced his new career as coach, is due to retire from dancing any minute, but his searing account of the trio from Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works made you wish he wouldn’t....
October 12, 2020
ReviewDance
Northern Ballet — a company on excellent form at the Linbury Theatre
...by Kenneth Tindall and assertively lit by Alastair West....
November 11, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewDance
Royal Ballet brings history and risk-taking to the Joyce Theater, New York
...MacMillan to the three current resident artists, Christopher Wheeldon, Wayne McGregor and Liam Scarlett, with the young Charlotte Edmonds as token female....
August 15, 2019
Dance
Clement Crisp, FT dance critic since 1956, attends Royal Ballet tribute
...He seemed to have an insight into where Kenneth was going: taking ballet out of the 19th century.”...
May 2, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Royal Ballet triple bill, Royal Opera House, London — from larky ragtime to anguished abstraction
...The oil-and-water mix of larky ragtime (Kenneth MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations), three-Kleenex sentiment (Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand) and anguished abstraction (Wayne McGregor’s Obsidian Tear...
April 16, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
The lighter side of MacMillan at Birmingham Royal Ballet
...The Royal, Northern, Scottish and English National Ballets will be joining forces at Covent Garden this October to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Kenneth MacMillan, but the party started at the...
September 29, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Casanova, Milton Keynes Theatre, UK — a blur of conquests
...Choreographer Kenneth Tindall worked with award-winning Casanova biographer Ian Kelly to fashion a coherent narrative for Northern Ballet....
April 20, 2017
Life & Arts
Choreographer Arthur Pita on ballet’s leap in the dark
...Until recently, the shadow of Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan, both central to the Royal Ballet’s repertoire, both master storytellers, loomed large....
November 3, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Royal Ballet Triple Bill, Royal Opera House: ‘Strong, well-balanced’
...Larousses at the ready for the latest Wayne McGregor ballet, Obsidian Tear, which had its world premiere at Covent Garden on Saturday in a strong, well-balanced trio of old, new and borrowed choreography...
May 30, 2016
Life & Arts
Hot and sweaty at the ballet
...Ballet sex wasn’t invented by the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan — Mikhail Fokine, Roland Petit and Frederick Ashton had all included episodes of startling sensuality in their work — but The Invitation...
May 20, 2016
Life & Arts
The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer Natalia Osipova on artistic freedom
...In Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia she plays Anna Anderson, a psychiatric patient who believed she was Anastasia, and had somehow survived the execution....
October 14, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
Upcoming dance performances
...sadlerswells.com 0844 871 0090 Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London Today and on Tuesday you can see the newest addition to the repertory: Woolf Works, Wayne McGregor’s three-act exploration of the...
May 22, 2015
Life & Arts
Upcoming dance performances
...The north tour offers Ashton’s Les Rendezvous and Elite Syncopations, Kenneth MacMillan’s merry homage to Scott Joplin....
May 15, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Tetractys, Royal Opera House, London – review
...McRae then found himself involved in Tetractys, the evening’s novelty and Wayne McGregor’s response to sections of Bach’s Art of Fugue....
February 10, 2014
Life & Arts
Royal Opera House head rejects ‘democratising art’
...There will be revivals of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon and Frederick Ashton’s Scènes de ballet....
March 31, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
The Human Seasons, Royal Opera House, London – review
...He might learn from the example of Kenneth MacMillan, who looked at his first weeks’ work on Le Sacre du printemps, felt all was not well, and started again....
November 11, 2013
Life & Arts
Royal Ballet School’s David Dawson returns to create ‘The Human Seasons’
...The Royal Opera House he finds himself in now is, he says, very different to the pre-renovation venue he knew as a ballet student in the early 1990s, watching Kenneth MacMillan’s final creations from the...
October 18, 2013
FT Magazine
David Hockney returns to LA
...His father, Kenneth, was a pacifist, dandy, antismoking, a public-spirited letter-writer who wrote, among others, to Stalin (an instinct Hockney has inherited, with his letters to The Guardian defending...
October 11, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Beyond Ballets Russes II, Coliseum, London
...To Wayne Eagling, his dancers and staff, every gratitude. www.ballet.org.uk...
April 1, 2012
FT AlphavilleDavid Keohane
SocGen vs Citi: the Aussie debate
...weakening Chinese demand (and the prospect of further weakening to come), a central bank that likes to ease and may cut rates again when it meets next week, and a dodgy economic outlook - Australian treasurer Wayne...
March 29, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Beyond Ballets Russes, Coliseum, London
...Wayne Eagling’s programming for this brief season is thoughtful and, I venture, over-optimistic....
March 25, 2012

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